D library projects : adopting Boost license

[Daniel de Kok]

On 2009-11-13 17:10:44 +0100, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> said:

> == Quote from Yigal Chripun (yigal100 at gmail.com)'s article
>> Generally speaking, is static linking of the stdlib the right thing?
>> I realize that's the only working option now, but when this is fixed
>> (and it really should be fixed) would that still be the correct choice
>> for the stdlib?
> 
> Yes, it is.  First of all, much of the std. lib is templates.  Here you 
> don't have
> much of a choice.  Second, IMHO dynamic linking is generally more trouble than
> it's worth.  Static linking may be inefficient in that you keep 1 copy 
> of each lib
> per process in memory, but it "just works".  No conflicts, 
> dependencies, etc.  To
> me this is a worthwhile tradeoff.

When there is a vulnerability in a standard library function, you don't 
really want to recompile all programs making use of it. Of course, for 
templates there's not much of an option...

Take care,
Daniel